Dynamic Colonization of Microbes and Their Functions after Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Inflammatory Bowel Disease
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Chu, Nathaniel D; Crothers, Jessica W; Nguyen, Le TT; Kearney, Sean M; Smith, Mark B; Kassam, Zain; Collins, Cheryl; Xavier, Ramnik; Moses, Peter L; Alm, Eric J; ... Show more Show less
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<jats:p>Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT)—transferring fecal microbes from a healthy donor to a sick patient—has shown promise for gut diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease. However, unlike pharmaceuticals, fecal transplants are complex mixtures of living organisms, which must then interact with the microbes and immune system of the recipient.</jats:p>
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2021Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Biological EngineeringJournal
mBio
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American Society for Microbiology
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Chu, Nathaniel D, Crothers, Jessica W, Nguyen, Le TT, Kearney, Sean M, Smith, Mark B et al. 2021. "Dynamic Colonization of Microbes and Their Functions after Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Inflammatory Bowel Disease." mBio, 12 (4).
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